On the Patricia & Phillip Frost Artwork Museum in Miami, photographer Kacey Jeffers’s first solo exhibition, “Multitudes” (on view by way of Could 4), bursts with shade and perception. Spanning 5 sequence and 25 images, the work—made in Nevis, the small Caribbean island the place Jeffers was born, between 2018 and 2022—weaves a wealthy tapestry of human expertise, inviting meditations on Black pleasure, individualism, and the influences of colonialism and tourism on the tight-knit (but splendidly different) local people.

“I hope this exhibition encourages you to replicate on the concept that by rejecting the constraints of singular narratives, we actively contribute to the revival of empathy and compassion for these totally different from us,” Jeffers writes in an accompanying essay. “Extending such grace to at least one one other is how we acknowledge that each one of us comprises multitudes.”

Right here, he walks Vogue by way of the 5 photograph sequence that make up “Multitudes.”

Postcards From the Future

“Rising up, and I might have play cousins come to go to. Each summer time they might come, and I might get to hang around with them. And for me, they form of represented an escape, as a result of abruptly I may go to lodges and I may go to swim in swimming swimming pools. I like a swimming pool to this present day: For me, in some methods, a swimming pool represents wealth. It represents, I’ve made it. There’s no sea within the sequence right here, and it’s not a disparaging factor towards footage by the ocean, however once we take into consideration entry and we take into consideration wealth, and we take into consideration the symbols that symbolize these items, for me, a swimming pool is that. We’d like photos of Black individuals by the swimming pool.

[As a child] I assumed solely white individuals had been vacationers, as a result of that’s all I noticed. So, this sequence was additionally about increasing the concept of who will get to be a vacationer, within the sense of: Why can’t it’s a single mother? It doesn’t all the time need to be a nuclear household; it could possibly be a mom who simply had a child and she or he needs to flee. Why not? I grew up with a single mom, and culturally a variety of moms don’t know what relaxation is. They don’t perceive these ideas as a result of they need to hustle. And in some methods, this was an homage to her—to my mom, her aunt, and to the ladies I grew up with.”